SHEFFIELD: Former world champion and the current fourth-ranked cueist Ronnie O’Sullivan has outclassed his Scottish counterpart Stephen Maguire 13-5 to book his spot in the semi-finals of the ongoing World Snooker Championship.

The six-times champion Ronnie, who faced Scotland’s Maguire in the quarterfinals, defeated the latter by 13-5 in the Best of 25.

Maguire ranked 24th, started the proceedings with a first frame victory but could not continue as Ronnie responded quickly and won the next six frames to attain an early and decent lead of 6-1.

The Scottish cueist, on the other, did not hold back and bounced back by winning three consecutive frames to cut the margin to 6-4 but only for Ronnie to restore and even extend his lead to 11-4 by winning five frames in a row.

In the 16th frame of the match, Maguire showed last signs of resistance, claiming his fifth and last frame victory of the match as Ronnie then soon won the next two frames to secure a comfortable victory over Maguire 13-4.

With his victory over Maguire, Ronnie has set the world record for most semi-final appearances in World Snooker Championship (13). He also has the chance of levelling Stephen Hendry’s record of seven world titles if he can lift the trophy on Monday.

The English cueist will now face either John Higgins or Jack Lisowski in the semi-final of the championship.

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